Sanitary towel or lady&#39;s band



July'7,1953 J. KJMORH'ARD v 2,644,454 SANiTARY TOWEL 0R AWS BAND Fil ed Bee 18, 1950 Inventor Beef Moi-h rd 'Atty sx Patented July 7, 1953 SANITARY TOWEL on LADYS BAND.

' Josef Karl Morhard, Hemldsberg, near N urnberg, Germany, assignor to Vereim'gte Papierwerke Schickedanz & 00., Nurnberg, Germany Application December 18, 1950, Serial No. 201,300 v In Germany December 19, 1949 1 Claim; (01. 128' 290) v It is of importance that ladies bands or sanitary towels may absorb the received liquid rapidly and completely and that the liquid is distributed as equally as possible within the body of the band. The ladies bands known up to now and consisting of foils made from cellulose fulfil these requirements.

According to one feature of the invention by manufacturing the bands of a basic body consisting'of an absorbing material which may be easily loosened, preferably'of cellulose wedding or cotton-wool, and of a covering layer provided at least on the upper side, i. e. on the side touching the ladies body, and consisting of an absorbing material, preferably of cellulose foils, adapted to distribute the liquid in all directions. A band consisting of a basic body and one or a plurality of covering layers according to the invention distinguishes thereby that the liquid is equally distributed by the covering layer or layers consisting of cellulose foils and is absorbed by the basic body consisting of wadding if it v penetrates through the mentioned covering layers. Consequently local spots of mud are avoided. It is important in this respect that the covering layer which is essential for the use of the band is hardly moist after having absorbed the liquid, but is nearly dry, while the liquid substances gather in the wadding basic body. Therefore the user of such bands will not feel moist spots as they areunavoidable with a liquid mud.

sisting for instance of circular knitting work, said.

tie running in the longitudinal direction of the band and being preferably formed of a textile strip having meshes of big size and extending to the ends of the wrapping layer.

According to still another feature of the invention the body of the band is formed at its ends in such a way that it gradually tapers.

The invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a ladys band.

Fig. 2 is a cross-section through the band,

r 2 Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the folded band, and

. Fi 4 shows the band pressed into a small size for the use on travels and for sports.

The sanitary towel or ladys band illustrated consists of the band body and the Wrapping. The band body is a pile consisting-of the basic body a and at least one covering layer b arranged on the upper side. The basic body is formed of cellulose waddingor cotton Wool or any other ab sorbent material adapted to be easily loosened after having been pressed. The covering layer b consists of some cellulose foils and the wrapping consists in the illustrated embodiment of a circular knitting work 0 known per se.

The liquid dripping on the band or sanitary towel is very equally distributed by the covering layer 1) in the longitudinal as well as in the crossdirection. The covering layer is drenched so to speak by the liquid in the lateral direction before the liquid penetrates into the basic body a of wadding and is absorbed by it. Therefore decided mud spots cannot be produced even if the liquid drips onto the band essentially only at one place.

In the embodiment shown in the drawing a further covering layer d is provided also on the lower side i. e. on the side remote from the body of the user said covering layer consisting also of cellulose foils and warranting that any liquid penetrating the basic body a is equally distributed on the lower side. This covering layer d is nonabsorbent, it, therefore, also causes a lateral distribution of any liquid reaching it before it is steeped, with the liquid. The said layer is further a protection for the body-linen.

Between the band body a, b, d and the circular knitting work 0 a strengthening tie or ribbon e is arranged consisting of gauze, mull or the like having meshes of big size and extending to the ends 1 of the wrapping c. This ribbon or tie is therefore, also seized if the carrying waistband or the respective fastening means is attached.

If such sanitary towel is used on travels and for sports it is folded in the manner shown in Fig. 3 after the ends of the wrapping 1 being bent over and is then pressed into the required small size as shown in Fig. 4. Before using the band it is taken out of the respective package or box'and loosened by shaking or kneading respectively. It then readopts nearly its original shape.

If the body would be severed from the supply serving for its production the two ends of the band would be of the. same thickness as the middle portion. For this reason according to the invention, the body of the band is torn off at 3 the respective places from the supply, whereby the wadding portions of the basic body a are drawn asunder on the ends in consequence of the longitudinal pull in such a way that the ends of the band body gradually taper or become thinner.

Having thus particularly described the nature of my said invention and the manner in what the same is to be performed what I wish to have covered by Letters Patent is:

A sanitary towel especially for use during travel and for sports, comprising, in combination, a basic body of substantial thickness consisting of an absorbent material adapted to be easily loosened after having been compressed, and, se-

lected from the group consisting of cellulose wad- V ding and cotton wool, the fibres of which run confusedly in all directions so that no actual liquid conducting capacity in an external. direction exists relative to the, thickness of the towel, but an increased liquid conducting capacity exists in a direction parallel to the thickness of the towel, a covering layer of substantialthinness as compared with the basic body and consisting of a plurality of thin layers of cellulose fleece having primarily the capacity of conducting catamenial fluids in the lateral direction while their capacity for conducting the fluid in the direction parallel to the thickness of the towel isdiminished due to the air gaps between the fleece layers, said covering layer applied to the face of the basic body nearest to the body of the wearer, a second layer arranged at the opposite face of said basic body which is remote from the body of the wearer and of a thickness substantially less than the thickness of the basic body, said second layer consisting of cellulose which is non-absorbent and is adapted to cause a lateral distribution of any liquid reaching it before it is steeped with the liquid, and a wrapping consisting of a knitted fabric and extending around both sides and both faces of the towel, said wrapping having end portions extending beyond the ends of the basic body.

JOSEF KARL MORHARD.

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